By Poetic Authority: The Rhetoric of Panegyric in Gaelic by M. Pia Coira

By M. Pia Coira

Through Poetic Authority provides a accomplished survey of medieval and early sleek Scottish Gaelic poetry, interpreting the actual kind of poetic diction within the extant corpus. via a set set of literary conventions, the court docket poets of the interval gave sanction to their buyers' management, an important job which served to maintain the team spirit of society. those conventions, often called the panegyric code, have been in a wide degree borrowed by way of the extra demotic vernacular poets and certainly permeate all Gaelic literary genres, together with annals and chronicles. initially proven within the poetic faculties of eire, the code followed a few specified types in Scotland, reflecting specific social and political advancements. The e-book is the 1st designated and systematic assortment and type of the rhetoric of management in Scottish Gaelic poetry, from the earliest instances to the start of the 18th century. as a result of its social and political functionality, notwithstanding, this poetry additionally finds a lot concerning the society within which it flourished, rather in admire of matters to Gaelic id and loyalties: as Gaels, as Scots, and as individuals of the early-modern country of england. a few of the book's relatively invaluable good points are: a cautious research of the 'panegyric code,' together with its composition and employment * divergences from the verified conventions acquired from the universities of eire * a dialogue of the problems of sovereignty, loyalties, and identities, as mirrored within the poetry * a unique systematic class of Scottish kindreds (clans) in line with their very own genealogical claims. The booklet will turn out to be a useful source for these learning Celtic, Gaelic, and Scottish literature, and the background of the medieval and early sleek classes. *** "As an entire, Coira's paintings splendidly demonstrates how the very good points of the verse that problem the fashionable ear (conventionalized topics and versification) enabled the verse to satisfy its epideictic functionality: to attach a warrior's acts with the mandatory activities (the history!) of a ruler gratifying the necessities of leadership." -- Scotia, magazine of Scottish reports, Vol. XXXVI, 2014Ëœ

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105–26. For a suggestion that the view expressed by Fordun may have been held in some quarters at least a century earlier see Broun 2009, but note that his evidence is taken from foreign — French and English — commentators. 52 Nicholls 2003, pp. 31–2. 13 By Poetic Authority how long, is unknown. For the Mac Domhnaill family of the lords of the Isles we have sporadic but consistent inauguration evidence from authors writing between the mid-sixteenth century and the early eighteenth. 53 When describing the inauguration ceremony, these authors are all speaking in the past tense.

The Whig counter-claim denied a monarch any special status, arguing that man’s natural state was one of freedom and equality, though bound by divine and moral law. John Locke (1632–1704) viewed political rule as legitimate only when it came about by the voluntary consent of citizens; the people trusted its powers to government, but those powers reverted to the people if a breach of trust (tyranny) was committed, and retribution might require the execution of the tyrant. 89 We may note that these authors expressing their views on the nature of government in the seventeenth century were often socially far removed from their late medieval predecessors.

16, 24–56, 61, 80, 115). 9 See generally MacInnes 2006b. 10 Ó Cuív 1963, pp. 253, 256. 11 The credence and influence of the filidh are perhaps not easy for the modern mind to understand. 13 The filidh’s learning was so extensive and so respected that whether the information given concerned an individual’s lineage, a saint’s miracles or the origin of a place-name, there was little doubt in the author’s mind that his point would be accepted without reservation as long as it could be substantiated by poetic authority.